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I'm not sure if anyone has 

grown tomatillos 

From Wikipedia:

The tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica)

 is a plant of the nightshade  family

, related to the cape gooseberry, bearing small,

 spherical and green or green-purple

 fruit of the same name. 

Tomatillos, referred to as green tomato 

(Spanish: tomate verde) 

in Mexico, are a staple in Mexican cuisine.

 Tomatillos are grown throughout

 the Western Hemisphere. 

The tomatillo is a variety of tomato,

 and is in the same family.

The tomatillo fruit is surrounded

 by a paper-like husk formed from the calyx.

 As the fruit matures, it fills the husk and can split it open by harvest. 

The husk turns brown, and the fruit can be any of a number

 of colors when ripe,

 including yellow, red, green, or even purple. 

Tomatillos are the key ingredient 

in fresh and cooked Latin American green sauces

I lived 20+yrs in AZ and used tomatillos

in cooking 

but I have never grown any 

so this is a unique venture for me!

I started to weed

 my strawberry patch today

I planted 3 new plants this year

Now strawberries in an of themselves

is no big deal but these 

are so very very small

and I" knew I

didn't plant any mini strawberries

My hsb tasted one

no flavor

I guess they are wild strawberries

how odd they are growing in

my patch

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